Tipple.



J'. L. SMITH.

TIPPLE.

APPLIUATION FILED MAY 15, 1911. BBNEWED MAY 31, 1913.

Patented Aug. 12, 1913'.

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TIPPLE. l APPLIUATION FILED MAY 15, 1911. RENEWED MAY 3l, 1913.

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JOHN L. SMITH, 0F HARRIMAN, TENNESSEE, .ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE F. LYMAN, 0F KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.-

TIPPLE.

Application filed May 15, 1911, Serial No. 627,338. Renewed May 31, 1913.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 12,1913.

Serial No. 771,081.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN L. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harriman, in the county of Roane and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Tipple, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates particularly to tipples used for dumping or discharging loads from mine cars, contractors cars, and similar small cars.

The object of the improvement is to provide a tipple which may be detachably applied to any portion of a railroad track of proper gage to operate the cars which are to be dumped, the construction of the tipple being such as to permit dumping over either side or over the end of such a track. The mechanism comprises means for engaging the rails of such railroad track at any point on the latter, so that the tipple may be placed upon such track and moved from place to place upon said track and secured at each such place to said rails and operated at such place as long as desired. Such track need not be specially constructed nor provided with any attachment to adapt it to receive the tipple; and when the tipple has been detached from the track and removed to another place on the track or removed altogether from said track, the latter is left precisely as it was before the tipple was brought to such place and there secured to said track. In view of these facts, said tipple may be regarded as a temporary attachment to said track. For convenience in description, said track is herein termed the fixed track while the track section on the tipple is called the tipple track. But such term, fixed,7 is to be regarded as relative only; for the track to which the tipple is attached may be portable. It is fixed usually while the tipple is used thereon.

The apparatus comprises a horizontal, fiat base which is secured to the fixed track rails at approximately the level of the latter; and upon said base is a flat turn-table bearing a tipple track section comprising rails resting above the fixed trackrails and preferably having two adjacent ends sloping downward to approximately meet the fixed track rails, while the opposite ends of said tipple track rails are low enough with reference to the fixed track rails to permit the car to move from said tipple track to the fixed track rails. pon said turn-table are two horns or stop members for engaging the car against forward movement. Said horns or stop members are adapted to be moved f out of the range or path of said car when it is desired to allow the latter to pass from the tipple track to the fixed track when said turn-table is in such position as to bring said tracks parallel to and approximately into alinement with each other.

The tipple track rails are preferably joined to each other by members forming a tipple track section, and said section is Vpreferably hinged to the turn-table for tilting said section on a horizontal axis, as will be hereinafter described. f

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tipple embodying my improvement and applied to Aa fixed track with the turn-table in proper position to bring the tipple track section parallel to the fixed track; Fig. 2 is a plan of the same tipple removed from the fixed track; Fig. 3 is a bottom vie-w of the tipple as shown in Fig. L); Fig. 4 is an upright section along the middle of the fixed track with the tipple applied thereto as shown in Eig. 1; Fig. 5 is an upright cross section taken along the upright axis of the tipple as shown in Fig. l, dotted lines showing the position of the tipple rails when turned crosswise of the fixed track.

Referring to said drawings, 1, 1, are two ordinary track rails of a fixed track upon which the tipple is to be placed. The crossties or other support for said fixed track have been omitted from the drawing.

The tipple comprises a base, 2, which is adapted to rest upon the fixed rails, 1, and which may be of any desired form. The drawings show it in the form of a flat metal plate approximately square and having two opposite edges resting-flat-wise upon the npper faces of the fixed track rails. Adjacent each such edge, a guidestrip, 3, is secured to the lower face of said base in proper position to bear against the adjacent fixed rail to prevent movement of said base crosswise of the fixed track.

Approximately midway between the fixed rails and at each side of the center of the base, 2, a locking bar, 4f, is pivoted to said base by means of an upright bolt, 5, extending through said bar and said base. Said bars are of proper length to cause their ends to engage under the heads of the rails, l, when said bars are turned so as to beat approximately right angles to said rails, whereby said base is locked or clamped to said rails. When said locking bars are turned upon the bolts, 5, so as to bring said bars oblique to said rails, said bars are released from said rails, and said base may then be made to slide along said rails into a new position or said base may be lifted entirely from said rails.

Two corresponding ends of the locking bars, 4l, are coupled to a link, G, which 1s shown extended beyond said base and having a hand-hold member, 7, hinged to said extended end. A ring, 8, is shown applied to said member, 7. F or disengaging the locking bars, the member, 7, and the ring, 8, are pulled horizontally away from the base. Then the base is pushed or pulled along the tired track, the lower face of the base rests slidably upon the upper faces of the fixed rails, and the guide strips, 3, bear slidably against the inner faces of said rails. Extending centrally through the base, 2, is an upright king bolt, 9, and supported on top of the base, 2, and penetrated by the bolt, 9, is a flat metallic plate, 10, constituting a turn-tal'ile, and this plate is shown of about the same dimensions as the base, 2. Between the plate, 10, and the base, 2, is a smaller plate, 11, which serves to separate the outer portions of the plate, 10, and the base, 2, to avoid undue friction and also vto avoid engagement between the bolt-s, 5, and the turn-table plate, 10.

Upon the upper face of the turn-table, 10, and near the opposite edges of the latter, side bars, 12, are located and secured to said table; Two adjacent ends of said bars are extended beyond the adjacent end of said turntable, 10, as indicated at 13, and a rod or shaft, 1l, extends horizontally through said ends so as to be transverse to said bars.

At the outer side of each bar, 12, and parallel thereto a tipple track rail, 15, rests upon the turn-table, said tipple track rails being spaced from each other the same distance as said fixed track rails are spaced from each other. Said tipple track rails are tapered or sloped downward at one end, as indicated at 16, so as to approach the head of the corresponding fixed track rail, said ends extending a short distance away from the adjacent edge of the turn-table, 10; and Said ends are connected by a rod, 161. The other end of each tipple rail, 15, extends away from the corresponding edge of the turntable, 10, and a bearing, 17, is formed on the under face of the rail near said end and receives the adjacent end of the rod or shaft, lll. rllhe ends of the rails, 15, which are adjacent the bearings, 17, each receive or terminate in a curved stop member or horn,

,18, in line with and pivoted to said rail Lowest on a line which extends longitudinally through said rail. The purpose of said stop member or horn is to engage the car entering upon the tipple from the opposite end of the latter. At the outer side of and parall-el to each tipple rail, 15, is ya rod, 19,

resting in a bearing, 20, on the side of the "ail and in an eye, 22, on said horn, the portion, 21, of said rod adjacent said horn being curved in conformity to the curvature of the horn. A handle, 23, is hinged to the opposite end of said rod on an axis which is horizontal when the curved end of said rod is in the upright position, and when said rod is in such position, the free end of said handle may drop by gravity and rest upon the ground. lllhen said handle is raised into t-he upright position, it may be turned outward so as to turn the rod, 19, in the proper direction to turn the curved end of said rod outward and cause said rod to similarly turn said stop member' or horn. Such movement should proceed until the horn is in or below the horizontal position and out of the path of the wheels of a car moving forward upon the tipple track rails.

The position of the turn-table which brings the tipple track rails parallel to and above the fixed. track rails may be regarded as the normal position of the turn-table; while the upright position of the stop inembers or horns and the horizontal position of the tipple track rails may be regarded, respectively, as the normal positions of said members. 'lhe tipple being placed upon and locked to the fixed track rails at the desired place, and the several parts of the tipple be* ing in their normal positions, the car to be dumped is moved forward toward the sloping ends of the tipple rails and pushed uponA the latter until the forward wheels of the car engage the stop members or horns, 18. Now the turn-table is turned upon its uprigllt axis V(the king bolt, 9) until the tipple rails, 15, are transverse to the fixed track. Then t-he tipple track section, comprising the tipple rails, 15, and the bar, 1G, and the horns, 18, tilted by moving the rear end upward aud the forward end downward to an angle which will permit the flowing of the load through the end of the car, which, as is customary, is provided with an end gate. The distance at which the load will be discharged from the .fixed track depends upon the length yof the car body, its height above the fixed rails and the distance from the horizontal hinge of the tipple track section to the turn-table axis. But the distance of such discharge from the lixed track may readily be made sufhcient to avoid the need of shoveling the material away from the fixed track after the discharge of said material from the car.

After the car has been dumped, the tipple t'ack section is returned inte the horizontal or normal position, and the turn-table is turned to restore the tipple track section into parallel relation with the fixed track. Then the car may be withdrawn by moving it backward over the tapering or sloping portions, 16, or the stop members or horns, 18, may be turned sidewiseV out of the path ofthe wheels by the aid of the hand levers, 23, in the manner above described. Then the horns, 18, are thus disposed, the car mayv be moved forward over the forward ends of the tipple rails, 15, to the fixed track rails, 1. Then a second loaded car may be moved forward into position upon the tipple for emptying as the first was emptied. Thus any number of cars may be moved forward to the chosen dumping place on a fixed track and there dumped and moved forward beyond said place.

It is to be observed that this tipple is also adapted to be moved to the end of a fixed track for dumping over such end, the base of the tipple being moved near enough for such purpose, to the end of the fixed track and there secured. Furthermore, it is to be observed that the tipple structure is so low as to bring the tipple rails so nearly the level of the fixed rails as to permit cars to pass over the tipple, without discharging their loads, to places forward of the tipple. This may be desirable when some of the cars contain material which is to be dumped and other cars contain material which is not to be dumped.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, and rails located upon and hinged to said turntable, substantially as described.

2. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for lockingthe base to said track, a turn-table on said base, and rails and stop mechanism located on said turn-table, said rails being hinged to said turn-table, substantially as described.

3. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking-the base to said track, a. turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinoed to said turn-table, and stops applied to said rails, substantially as described.

4. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, and stops applied to said rails, said stops being movable into and out of the path of the wheels of cars traversing said rails, substan tially as described.

5. In a structure of the nature described,

the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, stops pivoted to the ends of said rails, and means for moving the stops into and out of the path of the wheels of a car moving on said rails, substantially as described.

6. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, stops pivoted to the ends of said rails on an axial line extending lengthwise through the rails, and means for turning the stops upon said axial line into and out of the path of the wheels of a car moving on said rails, substantially as described.

7. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base t'o said track, a turn-table on said base, rails and stop mechanism on said turn-table, the rails being hinged to the turn-table, and shafts for actuating said stop mechanism, substantially as described.

8. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, stops applied to said rails, and shafts for actuating said stops, substantially as described.

9. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, stops pivoted to the ends of said rails, and shafts for turning said stops, substantially as described.

- 10. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on track rails, means located below said base for engaging said rails and locking said base thereto, a turn-table on said base, and rails located on and hinged to said turntable, substantially as described.

11. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on track rails, means pivoted to the under side o f said base for engaging said rails and locking said base thereto, a turn-table on said base, and rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, substantially as described.

12. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on track rails, means pivoted to the under side of said base for engaging said rails and locking said base thereto, a link secured to said pivoted means, a turn-table on said base, and rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, substantially as described.

13. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on track rails, means pivoted to the under side of said base for engaging' said rails and locking said base thereto, a link secured to said pivoted means for actuating the latter, a turn-table on said base, and rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, substantially as described.

111. 1n a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on track rails, guide members on said base, means for locking said base to said rails, a turntable on said base, and tra-ck rails located on and hinged to said turn-table, substantially as described.

l5. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on track rails, guide members on said base, means for locking the base to said rails, a turn-table on said base, and rails and stop mechanism on said turn-table, the rails being hinged to the turn-table, substantially as described.

16. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking' the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, and rails and stop mechanism on said turn-table, said rails being' hinged to said turn-table and sloping downward at adjacent ends, substantially as described.

17. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted tol rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turntable on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table and having adjacent ends sloping' downward, and stops applied to said rails, substantially as described.

18. In a structure of the nature described, the combination ot al base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table and having' adjacent ends sloping downward, and stops applied to said rails, said stops beingl movable into and out ot' the path of the wheels oi cars traversing said rails, substantiallj7 as described.

19. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a, track, means for locking the base to said track, a` turn-table on said base, rails locatet on and hinged to said turn-table and having' adjacent ends sloping downward, stops pivoted to the ends of said rails, and means :tor moving the stops into and out ot the path ot the wheels oit a car moving on said rails, substantially as described.

E20. In a structure of the nature described, the combination ot a base adapted to rest on a track, means 1to1' locking the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged. to said turntable and having adjacent ends sloping downward, stops pivoted to the ends of said rails on an axial line extending' lengthwise through the rails, and means for turning the stops upon said a-Xial line into and out of the path of the wheels ot a car moving' on said rails, substantially as described.

21. ln. a structure of the nature described, the combination ot a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking' the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails and stop mechanism on said turntable, the rails being' hinged to the turn-table and having adjacent ends sloping downward, and shafts for actuating' said stop mechanism, substantially as described.

22, in a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for locking' the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table and having' adjacent ends sloping' downward, stops applied to said rails, and shafts for actuating' said stops, substantially as described.

23. In a structure ot the nature described, the combination of a, base adapted to rest on a track, means -for locking' the base to said track, a turn-table on said base, rails located on and hinged to said turn-table and having' adjacent ends sloping downward, stops pivoted to the other ends ot said rails, and shafts for turning' said stops, substantially as described.

24. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on track rails, means located below said base for engaging' said rails and locking' said base thereto, a turn-table on said base, and rails located on and hinged to said turntable and having adjacent ends sloping' downward, substantially as described.

Q5. In a structure ot the nature described, the con'ibination ot a base adapted to rest on track rails, means pivoted. to the under side ot said base for engaging' said rails and locking' said base thereto, a turn-table on said base, and rails located on and hinged to said turn-table and having' adjacent ends sloping dmvnward, substantially as described.

QG. In a structure ot the nature described, the combination oi" a tipple rail provided at one end with a stop member pivoted to said end on an axis extending' lengthwise through the rail, and means ttor moving' the stop member into and out oit the path ot a car moving' on said tipple rail, substantially as described.

QT. in a structure ot the nature described, the combination otl a tipple rail, a stop member abutting' endwise against and rising' thence above the end oit said rail and pivoted on an axis coincident with the axis ot said rail, and means for turning' said stop member on said axis to move it into and out of the path of a car moving on said rail, substantially as described.

28. In a structure of the nat-ure described, the combination of a tipple rail having at one end a curved or horn member connected to the rail for movement about an axis coincident with the longitudinal axis of the rail, and means for moving t-he h-orn member on its axis comprising a rock shaft ournaled to the rail and having a curved extremity conforming and connected to the curved or horn member and at the end remote from the curved extremity provided with a manipulating hand member, substantially as described.

29. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a t-ipple rail having one end tapered to lie in close relation to a track and the other end comprising a curved or horn member svviveled to the corresponding end of the rail to move about an axis coincident With the longitudinal axis of the rail, a rock shaft journaled to the rail and provided With a curved extremity comiected and conforming to the curved or horn member and provided at the end remote from the curved member With a manipulating handle, substantially as described.

30. In a structure of the nature described, the combination oi" a tipple rail having one end tapered to lie in close relation to a track and the other end comprising a curved or horn member svviveled to the corresponding end of the rail to move about an axis coincident with the longitudinal axis of the rail, and a rock shaft journaled to the rail and provided with a curved extremity connected and conforming to the curved or horn member and provided at the end remote from the curved member With a manipulating handle, said handle being pivoted to the rock shaft for movement about an axis transverse to said rock shaft, substantially as described.

31. In a structure of the nature described, the combination of a base adapted to rest on a track, means for engaging said track for locking said base to said track, a turntable on said base, a tipple rail located on said turn-table, a stop member pivoted to said rail, and means for moving the stop member into and out of the path of a car moving on said tipple rail, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my ovvn, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of tvvo Witnesses.

JOI-IN L. SMITH.

IVitnesses:

J. W. Scorer,

WALTER H. ANDERSON.

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